What Are Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Plug-ins?

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) is a product that enables you to find information within your corporate intranet by keyword or contextual searches. To perform search, it must first collect the content from diverse sources and index it. The process of collecting this information is known as crawling, and is performed by a crawler.

The crawled information is indexed, and users have access to that index via a query application.

Oracle provides a number of crawlers out-of-the-box, and also provides an API for customers, partners and others to develop secure crawlers to access datasources not easily crawlable by the standard set of crawlers.

To implement secure crawling and accessing of private information, Oracle SES provides a comprehensive set of plug-ins which are the following:

• Crawler Plug-in
• Identity Plug-in
• Authorization Plug-in
  • Query Filter Plug-in
  • Result Filter Plug-in

In this tutorial, we will look at all the plug-ins mentioned in detail.